everybody norm from tested here at comic-con 2019 you guys know Andy from
Sideshow Collectibles any how you doing I'm doing fantastic I've got a very deep
voice already apologize well hopefully we caught you before you lost your voice
completely because you've been walking around your massive booth as always
talking about and sharing these amazing Premium Format figures these quarter
scale large-scale statues how many J's bring this year we have this is our
largest booth ever we have over 300 products it leads to 200 of them I would
say were exclusive first reveals at the show this year
that's incredible now this video we're talking about the Premium Format stuff
disease every year you guys with the artistic design with the poses I'm
always impressed this is a perfect example revisiting some the classics
designs this is Iron Man mark 7 from the first Avengers film tell me about the
statue this is the first reveal of this piece this is an early prototype we
wanted to give the fans the very first look at something we've been working on
I'll be completely honest with you I saw this piece first painted in a dark room
when they lit it up and I thought it was a hologram I didn't even realize that it
was a statue myself and I've been nerding out about this piece ever since
like it's legit my favorite thing at the show yeah first reveal a brand new
statue we don't have a price point yet or anything we just wanted to show you
guys first something that we've been secretly working on I think it's a great
example of the type of art design you guys are going with if it's scale
because one the pose right you have our man in flight where you're cleverly
hiding the armature through his leg it's in a like he looks off-balance because
he's flying but of course it's all in that smoke and then the illumination
right you have limitation eyes of course with the arc reactor but also with the
rocket there that's all really cool translucent lighting that's so neat yeah
we've been working a lot on the internal structure and as you saw last year as
well with Road we're really trying to push the engineer into to a lot more
dramatic stuff with the the balance points on the statues but we're also
working with some fantastic makes mixed-media now using these awesome like
semi translucent resins airbrushing them to get the effects we want and then
under lighten them to get that that's solid glow
yeah it's been it's been really fun playing with materials as well as poses
and and we're pushing the boundaries a lot more so it's also interesting is
that even at this scale there's a range of sizes like some of the more human
looking characters yes at quarter scale look great but then you have larger than
life like the Hulk or the juggernaut and even at premium format scale massive
almost like legendary scale tell me some of the new pieces you have in that size
yeah we have we have juggernaut here which is hilarious to me his hands are
bigger than mine and it's a quarter scale stature he's probably the biggest
piece I've seen in a long time part of our ongoing danger room x-mansion line
so all these pieces have a very similar based design so you can set up a battle
in the danger room he's in the x-mansion bursting through into the danger room
you can see all the debris coming through and he sits perfectly alongside
our new Colossus rogue a brand new gambit they all look like they're part
of the same like battle scene yeah and we also have a gladiator Hulk which is
just just monstrously huge like unbelievably big so I can't wait to show
you he's fully armored he has incredible creature base so there's just as much
effort put into the design of a creature that he's fighting or stepping on as
there is on the Hulk it himself absolutely yeah we and the pleasure of
watching a painter Casey love painting that particular piece his background is
in horror and fantasy painting and so he really went all out on the creature
design on that one he's the same girl who did I found a
piece along with a couple of artists so it did it's cool watching us and kind of
make the dream team for each statue we trying to pick the perfect people for
the perfect project and yeah he's a super tiny piece I think you're gonna
dig in know when we chat with a lot of people who design collectibles sometimes
they get references or digital files from the studio's you guys have your own
in-house team of artists and they digitally sculpt but it's their own
creative take right that's what you guys are very proud of the specific artists
take on a certain character absolutely and we're also really fortunate to work
with legacy so every now and then we'll work with them on key pieces as well so
it's it's an interesting mix we very fortunate with the studios given us
permission to do our artistic interpretation of characters especially
comic-book characters but then we get to do movies we get to work with legacy and
awesome people like that and use their rare reference and their skill sets as
well to do the most accurate for the movie pieces well that's a little more
stylized definitely more artist driven is this new line of tiny unruly
characters you guys are doing tell me about these vinyl toys as you're moving
into the designer toy scene that's right yeah designer vinyl it's and it's
something we love all of our staff go to like designer corn every year with big
nerds for that and we had a whole slew of artists who we just really admire but
they don't necessarily fit for something like this so it made sense eventually
we're like we have a a whole portfolio of artists who we adore what can we do
with them you know so we're working in two designer vinyl and limited-edition
art art statues and miniature toys working not only with original creations
but taking artists who do like graffiti and street art and and things like that
and getting them to play with licensed characters so they're getting to work in
in the world of Marvel now and things like that definitely a passion project
everyone involved it's it's kind of like they're working with people they admire
in the door and then taking this really awesome quirky and and unruly type
artwork and making it 3d some of the really crazy stuff like Tracy tuberous
pieces which is like ultra force perspective really dramatic figuring out
how to make that as a 3d sculptures a challenge but I think the finisher is
also pretty darn cool and not just comic characters but also the people who make
the creatures you have Guillermo in a Sjogren's piece I love his art and his
his kind of 2d art turn to 3d is really neat to finally be blown it's like you
get your very own del Toro fertility Idol it's absolutely amazing and we also
have we have our first kind of a celebrity LED piece before we worked on
the del Toro one is with the gabriel iglesias fluffy and you know he's a good
friend of ours a big collector then if you guys know that but he's a big comic
book writer a big statue collector longtime friend so it was really fun to
work with him on a piece and make a statue of a friend it's kind
of cool and he's actually at the show here today he's going to be coming in
the very first pieces are gonna be for sale and then he'll be signing them a
couple years ago you guys had the r2 line you guys seeded these unpainted
model any plans for that kind of those kind of collaborations let artists kind
of do their takes on on your models in the future maybe maybe watch this space
yeah we've got some fun things plants and this is unruly we've come pretty
hardcore we've got a lot of products here already but trust me that's the
very tip of the iceberg like it's it's just gonna blow up show people more of
the amazing 200 new pieces the Premium Format figure is here the there's so
much here in this massive booths gonna go beyond the scope of this video so
we're gonna check back in and then take a look at the hot toys next